Mission as an interstellar messenger:The Voyager mission set out to explore the outer planets (likeJupiterandNeptune) and some of the deepest realms of the solar system. Now in interstellar space, science data is regularly sent back home. (Both Voyager spacecraft have passed the "heliosphere,"...
Spot the five naked-eye planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—no telescope needed! We also explain how to see Uranus and Neptune through a telescope. (What about Pluto? This dwarf planet is tough to see, but if you’d like to learn more about it let us know.)Bookmark...
during the last few days of April and the first few days of May. Not only did Uranus exactly conjunct Jupiter — a combination frequently associated with cultural breakthroughs — but both planets exactly trined Neptune right then, and all of this happened in connection with a powerhouse stelliu...
The big question is, “What will happen to the gas giants” in the outer solar system? The enhanced mass loss in the sun’s later phases of its evolution will definitely strip away the outer atmospheric layers of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; to what extent it is hard to say ...
Jupiter is at itsbrightest in 2023 from Oct. 11 to Nov. 23.Jupiter is at opposition to the Sun on Nov. 3. Jupiter and Venus will appear side-by-side at dusk in the west-southwest sky on March 1; an eye-catching sight. Although Jupiter will glow with a lustrous magnitude of -2.1,...
change regularly is how many of the seven planets you can see in the line, and the more planets there are, the more rare and extraordinary the event is. So, it's pretty special that we'll be able to see Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a line from January through February 2025...